> how do I control the starting of services at boot? Eg. which > services installed should be started and which shouldn't. Do I need to > remove some links from the appropriate runlevel-dirs or is there a > better way of doing that? I remember in suse, there was a general > system-wide config-file called rc.local where I could just switch some > flags to "NO". > there is nothing like that in debian. if you want, you may just grab suse's idea/scripts. however, debian offers a script (update-rc.d), which you can use to modify all the script-links in rc?.d, so it's not that hard to do.
> how do I set the system-wide default keyboard map under debian? I saw > that when booting, the map file loaded is /etc/kbd/default.map.gz. At > first, I added a line containing the command "loadkeys" at the end of > /etc/profile, but I think that's not too elegant, so what's the proper > way of doing that? > modifying the boot script which loads default.map.gz or looking for some config-file - i don't know, what's the supposed way of doing this. > My last problem concerns dual-booting w/z lilo. > does windoze boot, if you physically swap the drives? if yes, then all is fine. however, think of installing lilo in /dev/hdb with a modified config before swapping the disks, otherwise you'll not be able to boot linux anymore (except with a boot disk). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
